Associations between home deaths and end-of-life nursing care trajectories for community-dwelling people: a population-based registry study

Table 1 Characteristics of 53,396 home-dwelling people who died in Norway 2012–2013 by place of death

	Home		Nursing home		Hospital		Other^a
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Overall population	11,867	22.2	14,895	27.9	24,241	45.4	2393	4.5
Sex
Female	4985	42.0	7827	52.6	11,136	45.9	566	23.7
Male	6882	58.0	7068	47.5	13,105	54.1	1827	76.4
Age (years)
0–39	548	4.6	63	0.4	789	3.3	426	17.8
40–49	549	4.6	165	1.1	719	3.0	263	11.0
50–59	1243	10.5	604	4.1	1854	7.7	389	16.3
60–69	2372	20.0	1860	12.5	4395	18.1	561	23.4
70–79	2505	21.1	3242	21.8	5772	23.8	378	15.8
80–89	3171	26.7	5855	39.3	7827	32.3	314	13.1
90+	1479	12.5	3106	20.9	2885	11.9	62	2.6
Cause of death
Heart	2456	20.7	1933	13.0	3704	15.3	401	16.8
Cancer	2624	22.1	7629	51.2	8198	33.8	102	4.3
Pulmonary	738	6.2	783	5.3	1874	7.7	44	1.8
Neurological	234	2.0	242	1.6	428	1.8	16	0.7
Kidney	51	0.4	101	0.7	152	0.6	4	0.2
Other	5764	48.6	4207	28.2	9885	40.8	1826	76.3
Household^b
Cohabiting	3067	25.8	6390	42.9	7125	29.4	214	8.9
Living alone	3920	33.0	6906	46.4	7741	31.9	314	13.1
Potentially planned home death
Yes	3471	29.3	2303	15.5	6883	28.4	133	5.6
No	8396	70.8	12,592	84.5	17,358	71.6	2260	94.4
Home nursing trajectory
No	6055	51.0	4921	33.0	11,846	48.9	2036	85.1
Accelerating	872	7.4	1144	7.7	2118	8.7	34	1.4
Decreasing	1536	12.9	5653	38.0	4413	18.2	159	6.6
High	3404	28.7	3177	21.3	5864	24.2	164	6.9
SNF trajectory
Low	10,797	91.0	4204	28.2	19,635	81.0	2320	97.0
Increasing	174	1.5	3462	23.2	901	3.7	20	0.8
Intermediate	601	5.1	1082	7.3	1824	7.5	30	1.3
Escalating	295	2.5	6147	41.3	1881	7.8	23	1.0

Note. Pearson chi-square test comparing place of death: p < 0.001 for all categories
^aOther place of death includes abroad, under transportation to hospital, other specified
^b17,719 missing household

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